A World In Pictures

What you are looking at is a place that the ground of has been stained with blood, pain, and suffering. This is a place of true despair, one that I'm sure most everyone has heard of. I'm speaking of course, of the concentration camp called Auschwitz-Berkenau. This is a place where thousands upon thousands of innocent men, women, and children were brutally murdered. These people were white, black, Jewish, Muslim, gay, bisexual, disabled, the list goes on and on. Nobody can condone it, yet nobody can deny it. The Holocaust changed history forever. The word for Holocaust in Hebrew is "שואה" (pronounced "sho'ah"). It means a great calamity, a catastrophe. And yet it is these great calamities and catastrophes that the world is most severely changed.
Me being a Jew myself, I'm not posting this and Jews in general do not speak of the Holocaust because we want people to be sorry for it. We do not ask for anything but remembrance. Remember this so that is does not happen again, no matter the people that are affected. We all know the old saying that history repeats itself. Well it hasn't repeated itself yet on this big a scale, but it certainly has taken hold in many countries around the world, and it has left quite a large impact.